The Assad regime s culpability for using these weapons is not in doubt.

But choosing an action for the greater good does not absolve us from moral culpability.

It thereby abandoned the most essential pillar of the rule of law, namely the individualization of culpability.

Similarly, in the second BMW case, people didn't blame a corrupt businessman they ascribed culpability to the lottery center, a government body.

Philosophically, the debt forgiveness approach rests on the belief that creditors share culpability for defaults with debtors, since they made the bad loans in the first place.

Meanwhile, defense attorneys may try to lessen their client s culpability by claiming insanity, as Breivik s lawyers attempted to do after he killed 77 people to protest the multiculturalism that he claims threatens Norway.

This seeming double standard can be explained partly by a sense of guilt the West has, for the most part, embraced Kosovo s independence in an effort to assuage its own culpability for not preventing Slobodan Milosevic s campaign of ethnic cleansing there.

Finally, those who view the Great Depression as fundamentally a product of tight fiscal policies and Treasury orthodoxy overlook the much greater culpability of a fixed exchange rate regime for the transmission of bad monetary policy, and thus for fueling the contraction.